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==History== Gandy was the first seat of Logan County.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=InM_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA127 | title=History of Hamilton and Clay Counties, Nebraska, Volume 1 | publisher=S.J. Clarke Publishing Company | author=Burr, George L. | year=1921 | pages=127}}</ref> An election on July 25, 1885, established the town of Gandy and named it the Logan County seat.<ref name="CALMIT">{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/logan/gandy/ | title=Gandy, Logan County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=August 19, 2014}}</ref> Gandy was named after an early settler, Jim Gandy,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27387 | title=Profile for Gandy, NE | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=August 19, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlas_EPVGFEC | title=Nebraska Place-Names | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | author=Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. | year=1960 |isbn=0-8032-5060-6 | pages=97}} A [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc 1925 edition] is available for download at [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ University of Nebraska—Lincoln Digital Commons.]</ref> who agreed to donate the land for the town in exchange for the naming rights.<ref name="CALMIT" /> Gandy was the largest town in Logan County until a Union Pacific spur line bypassed it to the north, and terminated at a newly established town, Stapleton, in 1913. Gandy remained the county seat until an election held on May 2, 1929, changed the seat to Stapleton.<ref>{{cite book| title=Logan County Through the Years, 1885-1985 | publisher=Clipper Print | year=1985 | pages=28–30}}</ref>
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